- Phyllomyias reiseri
Identification
A bright yellow-green tyrannulet, 11,5 cm.
- Bright olive from forehead to rump with faintly greyish tipped crown feathers
- Yellowish-white lores, narrow supercilium and cheeks
- Dusky wings with two broad pale yellowish wingbars
- Dusky olive tail
- Whitish throat and lower face
- Pale yellow underparts, faintly streaked or washed with olive on breast and sides
- Small and rounded blackish bill
Sexes alike, juveniles similar to adults.
Similar species
Very similar to Greenish Tyrannulet. Reiser's Tyrannulet is slightly smaller and has usually yellowish ear-coverts without dusky or olive tips. In the hand has also shorter wings and shorter tail.
Distribution
Found in the interior of eastern Brazil to northeast Paraguay.
Very local and uncommon, known from about 15 localities.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
May form a superspecies with Greenish Tyrannulet and Urich's Tyrannulet and all have been considered conspecific.
Habitat
Found in tropical dry forest and in gallery forest.
Behaviour
A little known species.
Diet
Forages in the canopy and along tree edges.
No other information.
Breeding
No information.
Movements
Presumably a resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved July 2014)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Reiser's Tyrannulet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 8 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Reiser%27s_Tyrannulet
